Adventures Weekly: Tracy Edwards
May 15, 2020
What a show…! For Adventures Weekly on 15 May 2020 the Sailor Girl welcomed Tracy Edwards MBE, direct from the UK to chat about her inspiring journey with Maiden, andThe Maiden Factor.For a full sixty minutes we chatted about the early days, the Whitbread…
Adventures Weekly - 27 March 2020
March 27, 2020
Sailing News in 60 Secondsish is back – with the Bad, the Sad and the Good!
The Bad were a list of cancellations that Nic couldn’t finish, the Sad was a tribute to John Fisher, or Fish, two years to the day of his passing.
The Good, was Sailor…
Sail Paradise 2020
January 1, 2020
Day One: Bartercard Sail Paradise Regatta kicks off from Southport Yacht Club
To kick off the new decade, the 11thBartercard Sail Paradise Regatta got underway today under a sunny sky in a building nor’easterly breeze with a fleet of 33 yachts.
The Race Officer…
#KeepingYouCovered
December 21, 2019
64 videos in total, a three-hour pre-start live show talking with over 35 boats through the fleet, start commentary for ABC Grandstand, a world first with live offshore drone coverage of the middle to smaller sized yachts off the coast of Sydney, over 15 hours of live…
Smoke on the water
December 10, 2019
For the first time in the 26-year-history of the Big Boat Challenge, the race has been abandoned due to safety concerns following the settling of thick smoke from the Australian bushfires over the Sydney basin and a serious lack of visibility.
“It was really…
40th Edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race wraps up in Malta!
October 27, 2019
Over the past few days I have managed to wrap all of the stories that we looked into at the start of the race, and in the case of the first all-female team, a story that I looked into at the conclusion of the Rolex Fastnet Race.
Black Sheep take RORC Overall Season
I…
Will it be an Elusive win at the Rolex Middle Sea Race?
October 25, 2019
Back to backs?
Last night I was on the dock for the arrival of the JPK1180 CourrierReccomande, who finished first on IRC Overall and in Division 5 and looked unlikely to be beaten apart from a potential redress hearing.Here is my chat with the skipper…
Wizard, Wild Joe and the waiting game...
October 24, 2019
As our attention starts to turn from line honours bringing the overall and IRC winner back into primary focus, it is becoming more clear that the 40th Edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race will be a small boat race. IRC Divisions 3, 4 and 5 are pushing back to the top of the…
Rambler 88 take the gun - will they take the double?!
October 22, 2019
While they finished 160 nautical miles in front of the next boat, the team were well behind their own record time set in 2007 when they took both line honours and IRC of 1 day 13 hours 55 minutes and 3 seconds.
Live line honours finish – Rambler 88
Nic…